Belfast is one of the most well provisioned areas of the UK when it comes to big name coffee shops.

To celebrate international coffee day on October 1, Trinity Mirror's Data Unit have used the Food Standards Agency database to research the locations of four of the country's biggest coffee shop brands - Costa Coffee, Caffe Nero, Starbucks and Pret A Manger.

Belfast is home to no fewer than 10 Caffe Nero shops according to the FSA as well as nine Starbucks outlets and six Costa Coffees - giving it a total of 25 big name outlets.

This means that there are 8.9 of these shops for every 100,000 people living in Belfast.

Not only is this figure more than double the national average but it is the eighth highest for any area of the UK outside of London.

Across the whole of the UK there were 2,397 shops collectively belonging Costa, Caffe Nero, Starbucks and Pret at a rate of 3.7 per 100,000 people.

Costa is by far the biggest player out of the four with 1,055 outlets in total. Starbucks was the next most prevalent according to the FSA with 637 branches compared to 507 Caffe Neros and 198 Pret A Mangers.

Northern Ireland as a whole was behind the pace compared to the rest of the UK with 3.2 big brand coffee shops for each 100,000 people in the country.

However this was a better ratio than in Wales (2.3 per 100,000) and Scotland (2.8 per 100,000).